Sudan’s army battles RSF for control of oil refinery near Khartoum

Fighting besides reported successful el-Fasher aft RSF issued 48-hour ultimatum to service to permission its past stronghold successful the country.

The Sudanese service and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are engaged successful warring adjacent al-Jili lipid refinery, northbound of the superior Khartoum.

The Sudanese service said it reached the vicinity of the strategically important refinery connected Wednesday, pursuing a multipronged violative northbound of Khartoum, with reports of nonstop clashes with the RSF.

Witnesses reported plumes of fume covering the entity implicit immense areas of Khartoum with Sudanese societal media activists circulating footage showing the Sudanese service seizing power of the entranceway to the town.

“In the past fewer days, the service has been launching a superior offensive, inching their mode towards the refinery,” said Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum.

“It’s evident that the service is trying to regain control, trying to instrumentality arsenic overmuch territory arsenic imaginable … but is yet to summation power of the refinery.”

Fighting was besides reported successful el-Fasher, with tensions having escalated earlier this week aft the RSF issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Sudan’s service to permission the city. Following the expiry of the ultimatum, the service carried retired aerial raids connected RSF positions, according to a subject root who spoke to Al Jazeera.

The root besides reported clashes astir the Zarqa buildings analyzable successful Khartoum North, with usage of dense weapons from some sides.

South Sudan spillover

Sudan plunged into struggle successful April 2023, erstwhile long-simmering tensions betwixt service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF person Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo broke retired successful a struggle that has displaced astir 12 cardinal people.

The warfare continues to rage, with the RSF and the Sudanese service accusing each different of war crimes, including targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas, which person resulted successful the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

The UN’s exile agency, UNHCR, said connected Tuesday that much than 1 cardinal radical had fled the Sudanese warfare into neighbouring South Sudan. Most of the cardinal radical crossing the borderline are South Sudanese nationals who had antecedently fled from civilian warfare successful the world’s newest country, it added.

In a abstracted development, South Sudan’s authorities suspended entree to societal media platforms, including Facebook and TikTok, for a minimum of 30 days aft videos of the alleged killings of South Sudanese nationals successful Sudan’s Gezira authorities triggered unrest.

At slightest 16 Sudanese nationals were subsequently killed past week erstwhile riots erupted crossed South Sudan, including the superior Juba, successful retaliation for the alleged engagement of Sudan’s subject and allied groups successful the Gezira killings.

Napoleon Adok, main of the National Communications Authority, wrote to net work providers connected Wednesday and ordered that they chopped services by midnight, stating that the upheaval successful Sudan had “exposed the South Sudanese colonisation to unprecedented levels of utmost violence”.

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